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0 # Guest 2010-05-06 05:39

Solar, baby, solar!

0 # Guest 2010-05-06 07:42

The coffer dam appears to look like a giant plunger. To stop the other wellheads, perhaps something more like a sunken battleship would actually stop the leakage. In terms of costs, Exxon was able to avoid paying for most of the Valdez spill. I would hope that basic moral accountability applies more in BP's case. Certainly the full costs will go beyond the financial, but "bill, BP, bill."

0 # Guest 2010-05-06 08:33

Excellent article on this dismaying situation. It seems so obvious that oil companies should not even be allowed to drill until they can demonstrate conclusively that they can handle situations like this. Since that's pretty hard to do, it means they shouldn't be drilling in difficult circumstances. There's been way too little oversight of the whole process. I wonder why!

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